Anna Sorokin · IDCon · Top "Dateline"s
Plus Woody Allen, Tekashi69, Soledad O'Brien, and a book review
If it please the court, Exhibit B.
Yeah, so I launched a true-crime bookshop. “You WHAT?!” …I know! I still can’t decide if this is the best or the dumbest thing I ever did, so let’s go with...
Michael Cohen · Keith Morrison · LuLaRoe
Plus: Remember 90s band Sublime? No, not 311. No, not Sugar Ray.
Assassins · Crime Scene · The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Plus murder houses and hip-hop lawsuits
Pam Hupp · QAnon · Cell Phones
Plus: Come hang out with me!
Allen v. Farrow · Andy Mills Ouster · Abolishing The Death Penalty
Plus black-market gold, a Village real-estate grift, and more
What Case Should Be The Next 'Surviving R. Kelly'?
You know the story by now: though R. Kelly had faced allegations of rape for years, it wasn’t until an FBI agent watched Surviving R. Kelly that law...
Bill Cosby · Delphi Murders · Crater Lake
Plus: The headlines that'll eventually be ripped from
Rae Carruth · Rosa Jimenez · Real Estate
Plus cop games, the other Charles Bronson, and more
Jack Palladino · Marilyn Manson · T.I.
Plus: You'll never look at spam calls the same way again
January Bonus Review: We Keep The Dead Close
It's a great book, until...it isn't, but that shift is worth unpacking too.
The Investigation · The Widower · The Chippendales
Plus Takeshi69 and the Canadian Mob. Must be Monday.
Checking In On Your True-Crime Pandemic
Get ready, everyone: every news outlet you can think of is readying their “one year in lockdown” packages, full of frustrated salon owners, angry anti-...
Green River · Red Justice · Scott Peterson
Plus: A 2010 memoir gets a Kingsman
The Body Farm · Jill Harth vs. Trump · Dryden, NY vs. fate
Plus Andy Mills, an upstate fugitive, and a poll
Unpublishing Crime · Robert Downey Jr. · Amanda Knox
Plus: a missing person podcast
"Ovation on the streets, Oxygen in the sheets" · Hallmark true crime
Plus Discovery+ premieres, Holmesian motives, and more
Questioning The Taste Level: The Tackiest Titles In True Crime
Inspired by both the end of the era vulgaris in Washington this week and a related Twitter thread in which the more harmless stupidities of the former...
The Serpent · The Pembrokeshire Murders · Dosa King
Hope you've got room in your ears for some podcasts
January 20, 2021
“In Tish James we trust.” But until she drops a literal ton of filings on the outgoing administration, we can gather here if needed. — SDB